50+ years of eukaryotic transcription: an expanding universe of factors and mechanisms

RG Roeder - Nature structural & molecular biology, 2019 - nature.com
The landmark 1969 discovery of nuclear RNA polymerases I, II and III in diverse eukaryotes
represented a major turning point in the field that, with subsequent elucidation of the distinct …

Acetylation of histones and transcription-related factors

DE Sterner, SL Berger - Microbiology and molecular biology …, 2000 - Am Soc Microbiol
The state of chromatin (the packaging of DNA in eukaryotes) has long been recognized to
have major effects on levels of gene expression, and numerous chromatin-altering …

Repetitive zinc‐binding domains in the protein transcription factor IIIA from Xenopus oocytes.

J Miller, AD McLachlan, A Klug - The EMBO journal, 1985 - embopress.org
The 7S particle of Xenopus laevis oocytes contains 5S RNA and a 40‐K protein which is
required for 5S RNA transcription in vitro. Proteolytic digestion of the protein in the particle …

Plasticity of the differentiated state

HM Blau, GK Pavlath, EC Hardeman, CP Chiu… - Science, 1985 - science.org
Heterokaryons provide a model system in which to examine how tissue-specific phenotypes
arise and are maintained. When muscle cells are fused with nonmuscle cells, muscle gene …

Recruitment of RNA polymerase III to its target promoters

L Schramm, N Hernandez - Genes & development, 2002 - genesdev.cshlp.org
A key step in retrieving the information stored in the complex genomes of eukaryotes
involves the identification of transcription units and, more specifically, the recognition of …

A zinc finger-encoding gene coregulated with c-fos during growth and differentiation, and after cellular depolarization

VP Sukhatme, X Cao, LC Chang, CH Tsai-Morris… - Cell, 1988 - cell.com
Egr-7 is an early growth response gene that displays fos-like induction kinetics in fibroblasts,
epithelial cells, and lymphocytes following mitogenic stimulation. Sequence analysis of …

Survey and summary transcription by RNA polymerases I and III

MR Paule, RJ White - Nucleic acids research, 2000 - academic.oup.com
The task of transcribing nuclear genes is shared between three RNA polymerases in
eukaryotes: RNA polymerase (pol) I synthesises the large rRNA, pol II synthesises mRNA …

Transfer RNAs: diversity in form and function

MD Berg, CJ Brandl - RNA biology, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
As the adaptor that decodes mRNA sequence into protein, the basic aspects of tRNA
structure and function are central to all studies of biology. Yet the complexities of their …

A factor, U2AF, is required for U2 snRNP binding and splicing complex assembly

B Ruskin, PD Zamore, MR Green - Cell, 1988 - cell.com
Pre-mRNA splicing complex assembly is mediated by two specific pre-mRNA-snRNP
interactions: Ul snRNP binds to the 5'splice site and U2 snRNP binds to the branch point …

[HTML][HTML] Transcriptional regulation and the role of diverse coactivators in animal cells

RG Roeder - FEBS letters, 2005 - Elsevier
Transcriptional regulation in eukaryotes involves structurally and functionally distinct nuclear
RNA polymerases, corresponding general initiation factors, gene-specific (DNA-binding) …